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Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: This is a question we put to the Minister very strongly at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. Projections to 2021 indicate that capital spending is barely keeping pace with depreciation. Professor Tom McDonnell of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, made that point to us most strongly. In fact, the figures he gave us showed that they are below normal accounting depreciation...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I mentioned housing and we need to ramp up the construction of social housing by at least 10,000 units per year. In the alternative budget that I submitted, I spoke about having an additional €1 billion for housing this year and every year until 2021 or until we get rid of the horrendous experiences being suffered by people in the city tonight. With regard to transport, we speak of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak briefly on the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016. It is welcome that the Bill is finally before us and provides for an office of the planning regulator, which was a key recommendation of the Flood-Mahon tribunal. Ordinary constituents and citizens welcome the idea of a regulator because we often have a situation in planning where...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Education Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his role with the Minister for Education and Skills in the design and operation of the proposed Exchequer-employer investment mechanism for third level education to operate from 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30777/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (20 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff including medical staff, carers and therapists who will be employed with the additional €61 million secured for the 2017 disability budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (20 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the additional €61 million in 2016 that will be allocated to pay increases for additional staff and for the employment of new staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31262/16]

Other Questions: Syrian Conflict (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met his Syrian and Russian counterparts to discuss the atrocities in Aleppo; if he has also met American, British and other EU Foreign Ministers on moves to end the Syrian carnage; his plans to meet with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31702/16]

Other Questions: Syrian Conflict (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I listened to the Minister's earlier replies to colleagues in the Chamber on the carnage in Syria which has taken perhaps 500,000 lives at this stage and which has displaced millions of Syrian people. The Minister said he had been in contact with ambassadors and others. He said Ireland was ready to play a positive role, and I think he meant a very strongly positive role, in the resolution...

Other Questions: Syrian Conflict (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister said the attacks may, indeed, amount to war crimes. Why would the Minister preface his remarks with words like "maybe"? These are war crimes. The involvement of Russia, presumably in pursuit of its strategic interests, has enabled the Assad regime to continue making war on its own people. Assad said there would be no more humanitarian causes. What is the attitude of the...

Other Questions: Syrian Conflict (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: Surely every time the Minister speaks he should be calling for a cessation of the savage attacks on the people of Aleppo and other parts of Syria. Has the Minister spoken to the representatives from the United States, the ambassador and the Secretary of State, and the UK? They are countries that supply Saudi Arabia with large amounts of modern weaponry which then end up on the outskirts of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to ensure Ireland is playing an important role in trying to bring peace to Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31701/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to have Raheny Garda station, Dublin 5, refurbished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32008/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of gardaí in each Garda community policing unit in each district in Dublin as of 31 December 2014, 31 December 2015 and 19 October 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32009/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of trainees who have participated in the SOLAS safe pass training programme in the years 2013, 2014, 2015 and to date in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32010/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: 488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for plastic surgery at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the average waiting times to see each plastic surgeon consultant; the steps being taken to reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32006/16]

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I am glad of the opportunity to make some brief comments on the Finance Bill 2016. One of the 57 sections in the Bill which has attracted much comment among our constituents is section 54, which makes changes to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 and the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999. The section refers to "penalties for deliberately or...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I have two brief questions for the Taoiseach. First, the amendment to the Courts Bill for the third payment option-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: It is a more or less a related question to the Oireachtas. That courts query was the first one. I believe that six people have died tragically on our roads since I questioned the Taoiseach last week on road safety. My second query is on the relocation of Seanad Éireann to the National Museum-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I ask because there is a lot of anger among our historians and archaeologists about the proposal.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: I ask the Taoiseach if we could have the Seanad in the large committee room downstairs? Why would we disrupt a national institution?